AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 200 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	377
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	5.39	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code name	Wimbledon XT
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	1 May 2012 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2560	of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Core clock speed	850 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop)
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size

large

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory	-

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

11.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

HD 7970M Crossfire 15.20

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

HD 7970M Crossfire 11119

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 7970M Crossfire 31127

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	132
Full HD	102

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	80−85
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	55−60

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	60−65
Counter-Strike 2	80−85
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	55−60
Far Cry 5	45−50
Fortnite	80−85
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
Forza Horizon 5	45−50
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	50−55
Valorant	120−130

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	60−65
Counter-Strike 2	80−85
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	190−200
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	55−60
Dota 2	90−95
Far Cry 5	45−50
Fortnite	80−85
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
Forza Horizon 5	45−50
Grand Theft Auto V	55−60
Metro Exodus	30−35
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	50−55
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	35−40
Valorant	120−130

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	60−65
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	55−60
Dota 2	90−95
Far Cry 5	45−50
Forza Horizon 4	60−65
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	50−55
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	35−40
Valorant	120−130

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite

80−85

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	27−30
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	100−110
Grand Theft Auto V	24−27
Metro Exodus	18−20
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	130−140
Valorant	150−160

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	40−45
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Dead Island 2	24−27
Far Cry 5	30−35
Forza Horizon 4	35−40
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	21−24

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite

30−35

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−12
Dead Island 2	14−16
Grand Theft Auto V	27−30
Metro Exodus	10−12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	20−22
Valorant	80−85

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	21−24
Counter-Strike 2	10−12
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6
Dead Island 2	14−16
Dota 2	50−55
Far Cry 5	16−18
Forza Horizon 4	24−27
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	14−16

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite

14−16

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

GeForce GTX 680M SLI 103.88

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 102.96

GeForce MX570 A 102.37

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire 100

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB 97.43

GeForce MX570 95.86

Radeon RX 5500M 95.79

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is GeForce MX570 A, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

GeForce MX570A

Compare
HD 7970M Crossfire with MX570 A

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire:

GeForce GTX 680M SLI 103.88

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 102.96

GeForce MX570 A 102.37

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire 100

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB 97.43

GeForce MX570 95.86

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile 95.39